Daughter tells murder trial of her father's phone confession to killing his partner

Police at the flat in High Street, Measham where Tracey Evans, 52, was found dead (Image: Will Johnston)

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Police at the flat in High Street, Measham where Tracey Evans, 52, was found dead (Image: Will Johnston Photography)

Mrs Prior asked: "Did he say anything about being suicidal?"

Deborah Evans said: "No, there was no indication, nothing out of the ordinary in his voice.

"He said he was fed up with Tracey, at the end of his tether... there was no change in his voice.

"I said 'Why, what have you done to her?'

"He just said he wanted to speak to Amy."

Mrs Prior said: "Did you then call your daughter, Amy, to tell her he wanted to talk to her? "

"Yes," replied Mrs Evans, who said she went to her daughter's home soon afterwards, when her daughter sent Facebook messages, saying: "OMG he's killed her...I'm shaking... Mum come now."

Deborah Evans said she called 999.

Police at the flat in High Street, Measham where Tracey Evans, 52, was found dead (Image: Will Johnston)

The 999 call made at 1.35am was played to the jury where Deborah Evans explained it sounded like Clarke "had a fallout with his girlfriend and he's killed her" and that he was in the process of killing himself.

An ambulance operator then rang Clarke who allegedly falsely claimed that nothing was wrong and that Tracey Evans was alive but drunk and fast asleep. He made a pretence of trying to wake her and assured the operator she was breathing.

The court heard that the police arrived at 2.12am and found Tracey Evans' dead body in the bath, with a severely lacerated neck.

Although he admitted having caused the injury at the scene, Clarke, who has diabetes type 1, denies murder on the basis he had a hypoglycemic attack at the time of the alleged incident and had no intention to kill or cause serious injury.